Gender equality Quote by Patricia Cornwell

“I had the strange desire for a giant butterfly net to catch whatever was out there, as if it could be captured so easily.”

— Courtney King Walker

“This must be what a fly felt like when it was caught fast in a spider's web.”

— R.K. Lilley

“Pull on a thread, and you pull on the whole web. And then out come the spiders . . .”

— Frances Hardinge

“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us theirs?”

— Emile Cioran

“The butterfly with a wounded wing glided clumsily down to settle on a leaf by the spider's web. The spider knew he was there,…

— Howard L. Myers

“A worthwhile day, I had killed two spiders, I had upset the balance of nature - now we would all be eaten up by…

— Charles Bukowski

“The shroud itself became a story almost instantly. 'Penelope's web', it was called; people used to say that of any task that remained mysteriously…

— Margaret Atwood

“He then represented to himself the human species, as it really is, as a parcel of insects devouring one another on a little atom…

— Voltaire

“Once when I was a little child of six or so, I watched a spider spinning its web in a corner of the house.…

— Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha

“It is the individual mainly which draws me—the struggling, blundering, passionate insect vainly striving against the river of Life and seeking to divert the…

— Robert E. Howard

“I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach…

— Annie Dillard

“An ambitious worm is better than a complacent butterfly.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo